I own the Protech Cambria with the burl wood inlay and I absolutely love it! Thanks for a better look of the Malibu and what the production version of this knife really looks like. I look forward to purchasing it.. I really like Protech great company/products but due to anti-auto laws haven't' gotten to purchase many of their knives.. this model solves that problem.

There aren't enough manual button locks.

Update: I got the reverse tanto version with black handles. It's absolutely perfect. Nicest production knife for the price and style. It's a great flipper!

Good choice

It will be available in blue soon! I'll see if they can make a green run!

Pvk has some!

@@mattpignato9763 Thank you

brooke Pignato no they don’t

@@mpower4life did... out of stock now.

@@mpower4life sourhern edges has a total of 4 now. 2 blue 2 black.

Send them an email or IG DM

Good to know. I was just using my understanding of blade shapes.

Not.

I just dont have a 0450 on hand

I have done dozens of clip swaps on Spydies, esp P3's. The screws are good to go. Just use a good T6 torx bit and slow but strong rotational force. Make sure to push into the screw head a bit to prevent slipping. Spyderco changed to less aggressive loctite in the last 3 years or so. Shouldn't be an issue at all!

It can help if you heat up the screws first, this will loosen any loctite. I recommend using a hairdryer for a minute or so. Some knifemakers boil the knife!

It has a hardened stop pin!

Yes correct. The third theyve made. Cambria, Mordax, Malibu.

Thanks for the info. As I mentioned, this is the 3rd buttonlock manual they've done.

Doctor Frunkey yeah but you did say this was the first on there own. Which as said above is not true.

I spoke to protech on Instagram and It sounds like not for a long time, the mirror finish edition actually already launched as a consumer prototype for $500 MSRP back a few months ago. Heres exactly what they said. "We will have some some time in the future. To mirror polish a blade, it must be hand ground & then hand polished. This essentially makes it a fully custom blade, & it's therefore priced at one. The only model with the mirror polished hand ground blades were the first prototype models, whose MSRP was $500 due to those blades. The reverse tanto will be stonewashed or 2-tone stonewashed with satin flats. We unfortunately just don't have any blades to send out for mirror polishing an this time. Most custom maker's will not polish high carbide steels like 20cv, so we have to send out 154cm blades - this is due to how they finish. High carbide steels take hours to polish each blade, & the cost is crazy. so the issue is that we have no 154cm blades. We cannot simply cut a few, as they must be done in groups of several hundred. Once we run some more in the future, we will send them out & offer them again. Though it might be awhile before that can happen."

Yes I was wrong! My bad!

It is a flat grind. Very slicey.

Doctor Frunkey Thanks for answering! Will they make a variant with hollow grind? It seems like it on BladeHQ’s website. www.bladehq.com/item--Protech-Malibu-Plunge-Lock-Flipper--106831

@@sharamkh as I understand, this platform is modular, and will likely have various blade shapes and types.

Comes in blue too

I'm still gonna knife! Haha